Maybe NYC will be both a city and a tropical island, thanks to global warming.

But even with just a city, if one can go at the top of the skyscrapers and have a highly detailed view of NYC and not just cube with low-def texture, it can be quite a graphical feat.

And this one: http://steampowered.com/status/ep2/death_maps/ep2_outland_10a_deaths.jpg

"Oh, robot fight, lets watch... uhoh! *squish*"


And last: http://steampowered.com/status/ep2/death_maps/ep2_outland_12a_deaths.jpg
It seems that several people wanted to become astronauts

I'm sorry but having to install a copy protection in a demo that everyone is free to install anywhere and use anytime, it's just plain stupid.

I don't see *any* advantage at having it for a demo. It's just a waste of computer resources, a potential source of instability in Windows and a potential source of conflict with other applications.
For a full game, this can be acceptable depending of your view points about piracy and all. But it's definitely not for a f***ing demo.

I didn't have any anything against installing StarForce with Splinter Cell. I didn't like it as a matter of principle but I still installed it.
However I do have issues with installing for a demo. So as soon as I saw StarForce when I wanted to start the demo, I uninstall it, without trying the game. They just lost a potential customer.

I feel like bringing her to the hospital because several bees stung her on the lips... or she has some kind of bad allergy to her lipstick...

I fail to see the implication of testing a patch and distributing it.
Steam or not Steam, I would prefer a patch that has been tested properply. And I have no guarantee that exe/zip patches are better tested than Steams one.
Actually what I prefer is small tested patches. That way, if one patch fails, it still possible to have the other bugs fixed and the other new features installed. And small patches are easier to manage with Steam than with exe/zip.

Hmm, forgot that Vivendi was french. And I agree that Vivendi is a slimey company. And that other French CEO is a bastard too.
Now saying that the french are bad because of that is quite a step. Afterall, the RIAA and MPAA are mostly americans and I don't think they are better than Vivendi. And America is the reference for fuck-everybody-I-just-want-all-the-money system, aka capitalism.
What is the word for "worse than a bastard" then?

What do the french have to do with that. God, you're so childish

Can it be done using tiles, while keeping the tiles to a simple, understandable shape and pattern? Tiles are fundemental to Civ beyond things like unit movement - city resources rely on them for example

There is a long time since I've played Civ but I don't think tiles are really necessary. RTS were tile based at first but now there are not anymore and still work well.
So in Civ, maybe cities could use a circular zone around them which will be divided like pieces in a pie. Or they could still uses tiles with the tiles not being aligned between two cities.
The biggest issue is build roadways and railways. Especially that when you build them in a tile, they automatically link to all neighborhood tiles already built.

I have 1gb of ram so i'm good there

It's 512MB of video RAM, not regular RAM. AFAIK, there are not 512MB video card yet.

didnt the last September 30 turn out to mean absolutely nothing?
hopefully people have learned something from that

Which ones? The talkers or the listeners?

So many games either dump you back at the main menu, or force you to refresh the entire list again

Not counting those that reset what column is used for sorting. I don't care what the servers that start with "###" are, I want to see the servers that have the most players or the best ping.

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Wait until you see the next demo. If there are real improvments, then yes, it's probably an old demo. If it's just the same demo but a bit more stable, then they probably lied.

But, having played the demo and see how bad and buggy it is, I would tend to believe them.

Also, if this "shtick" is used so often, maybe it's because editors realize that they can get away with releasing betas.

the AI seems nonexistant but perhaps it has not been integrated into the engine yet...

uh?

MajorGeeks, if you have a better way to stop the exclusive demo thing, please, do tell us.
What 3D Gamers and others do is just what americans are so fond of: boycotting. A strike (french are fond of this one) is the same kind of thing. Tell people that boycotting and going on strike is a bad idea...

And HL2 was on track for Sep 30 until Sep 29...:(

No, it sounds like the big brother of the Z-80. Maybe it's a Z-80 running at 64Mhz

Me.
I don't see why having HL2 coming soon prevents you from buying Halo too. I'm looking forward to play both games!

Time to make good use of P2P networks (Gnutella and Gnutella2)
magnet:?xt=urn :-bitprint-: E3KSI6DYX7XNPZKGZL7CCO3JGLFIV4M6.HUKYCKNM64FCCVIK2MHC6VOS4FMWSKSGFAZW2JA&dn=3DMark03.exe
gnutella://bitprint:E3KSI6DYX7XNPZKGZL7CCO3JGLFIV4M6.HUKYCKNM64FCCVIK2MHC6VOS4FMWSKSGFAZW2JA/3DMark03.exe/
ed2k://|file|3DMark03.exe|185595833|8d4a294638c7516eb29fdd70f47f9b1a|/

My bandwidth is limited so I can afford only 2 uploads at 12KB/s each but that's a start (and I'm behind a firewall so only push requests will work).

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